US Patent Issued to IPG PHOTONICS on May 20 for "Ergonomic steering handle" (Russian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,655, issued on May 20, was assigned to IPG PHOTONICS Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Ergonomic steering handle" was invented by Gregory Altshuler (Lincoln, Mass.), Ilya Yaroslavsky (North Andover, Mass.), Dmitri Boutoussov (Southborough, Mass.), Viktoriya Andreeva (Moscow Region, Russia), Olivier Traxer (Paris), Michael Barenboym (Boston), Isaac Ostrovsky (Wellesley, Mass.) and Anastasiya Kovalenko (Moscow Region, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Catheter steering handles that are ergonomically designed to enable an operator to reduce hand fatigue. Various ergonomic aspects of the disclosed steering handles include geometries that ...